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To: Dave who wrote (10698)	4/16/2001 11:39:10 AM
From: JohnG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Dave. When they use network triangulation to locate your phone, it will not just be "more specifically", it will be precisely within a 50 foot radius that the network will know your location. It will be a privacy violation if the network is enabled to determine my precise location without me giving the network permission to locate me. Thus QCOM's Snap Track respects my privacy unless, for reason's having nothing to do with my personal needs the network operator, Sprint in this case) should set up his network to triangulate my precise location. This appears to be a major privacy issue--and clearly various agencies will gather this location information if it is available. The point is, once again, Snap Track appears to respect my privacy whereas, I don't think the other methods do so. If this is so, I will be changing from Verizon to Sprint. Also, I guess all those Europeans will be losing their privacy if their operators adopt triangulation methods.